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Hi,
While doing some tests/research on secret operators, I stumbled upon this
one in my one-liners:
~~<>
Obviously, this should be named "the sperm operator". It's only useful
in list context. Just like sperm cells work better when there are many
of them. ;-)
Now, if you want to get a number from that line you just read, you
could use this variation:
~~<>+0
which we could name the fertilisation, conception, fecundation or
syngamy operator, except the flagella (~~) has become useless, since
the +0 operator (ovum?) already provides scalar context. So it's just
the same as <>+0.
I have no idea if this operator is really new, or if someone else found
and named it already before today. My Google-fu is too weak to make
useful searches on it.
--
Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
No matter who you may be, there is always someone who is a little worse
because he thinks he is a little better.
(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #3 (Epic))
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